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Identity is something most of us examine at some point in our lives. It is universal to feel comfortable or uncomfortable in our bodies, our skins, our commonness, and our otherness.
You never know the last time you’ll sleep in your own bed.
Never trust a person who is too lazy to brew tea. The only use for generic tea bags is to reduce puffiness around the eyes. If you drink this stuff, I do not want to know you.
“You don’t pick battles; you just outlast them.”
Son of a biscuit.
short quote from The Scarlet Letter: “She had not known the weight, until she felt the freedom.”
“You haven’t lived if you are not trying to forget.”
We believe in making mistakes and having regrets. As long as it hurts no one.”
And don’t be afraid, já? You will survive it.”
There is beauty in chaos.
There is no order to life. While time is linear, we do not have to live within its confines.
Expectations of how things must be are an anathema.
Aloneness was a choice, but loneliness felt different.
Bravery isn’t in big battles; it is in small acts.
Once you are over the age of 30 you can no longer blame the past or your parents for the way you are. Fix yourself, it’s within your control.
subtext is often more telling than text.
“I hope we never stop being fifteen when we like someone.”
“You’re lucky I don’t let people leave me. It’s my baggage. Thanks to divorced parents with their new children, I collect people who I want in my life and make sure they’re never allowed to drop me the way my parents have done.”
“History always starts in the present.”
It was never too late to fix yourself.
“The only way is through.”
“Intent and motive say more about a person than their action.”
tears are wounds of the heart.
“I wouldn’t want a life without a few mistakes.”
all that exists is impermanent.
This is for everyone who is fighting for their dreams: don’t stop practicing, be patient (to a degree), and keep going, especially when traveling against the current.
